Charles Ross
Solar Burn in the Time It Takes Sunlight to Reach the Earth
1977
Solar burn on wood board
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Charles Ross (American, b. 1937).
This work is offered unframed.
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Signed and dated bottom right
Provenance
John Weber Gallery, NYC
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Catalogue Note
A pioneer of Land Art with Smithson, Heizer and De Maria gathered around the Dwan Gallery, Ross's work is focused on sunlight as evidenced by his eleven-storey high "Earthwork", "Star Axis" conceived in 1971 and begun in 1976 in the New Mexico desert. An architectural sculpture and naked-eye observatory, it allows one to experience the earth's rotation around the sun over a 26,000-year spectrum.
Its first "Solar Burns" date from 1971 and record the time it takes for light to reach the earth by insolation, that is 8 minutes 19 seconds.
Condition Report
No obvious signs of wear to art.
Minor hole from hanging nail on reverse.
Product is used.
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